{"id":45011,"date":"2014-11-14T06:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45011"},"modified":"2014-11-14T06:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:43:25","slug":"scuttled-deals-worth-580-billion-put-hedge-funds-on-back-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2014\/scuttled-deals-worth-580-billion-put-hedge-funds-on-back-foot.html","title":{"rendered":"Scuttled deals worth $580 billion put hedge funds on back foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds specialising in bets on mergers and acquisitions are starting to see investors withdraw funds, prompting them to take a more cautious approach after being caught out by more than 500 corporate deals globally failing this year.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a broader industry strategy aimed at making money from major corporate events, these deal-focused funds gained an average 13 percent in 2013, their best year since 2010, which helped them lure in a net $10 billion in new cash through August this year, data from industry tracker Eurekahedge showed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/14\/uk-hedgefunds-m-a-idUSKCN0IY0OM20141114\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds specialising in bets on mergers and acquisitions are starting to see investors withdraw funds, prompting them to take a more cautious approach after being caught out by more than 500 corporate deals globally failing this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45016,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions\/45016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}